What would you do? Neuroethics sheds light on our darkest dilemmas (The...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) UAB - UAB News - What would you do? Neuroethics sheds light on our darkest dilemmas When machines and brains mix, who's in charge? This is the type of...
View ArticleUAB Athletics fundraising campaign to launch Aug. 18 (The University of...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) UAB Athletics ramps up fundraising with campaign launch event Aug. 18. The UAB Athletics Campaign will publicly launch Tuesday, Aug. 18. UAB fans and...
View ArticleFrank talk about sex key to improving Americans’ sexual health, says UAB...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) In JAMA Viewpoint, Edward W. Hook III, M.D., says doctors and patients must be willing to talk about sex if we are to decrease the nation's rate of...
View ArticleDrug developed from UAB research sharply lowers cholesterol in animal tests...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) An Arizona drug company will patent the small peptide drug. Crystal structure of the receptor-binding domain of Apolipoprotein E, residues 1-165....
View ArticleAsking the questions others aren’t — UAB School of Public Health planning to...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Under the guidance of Dean Max Michael, M.D., since 2001, the SOPH has identified five areas of focus for the next five years. Max Michael, M.D., dean...
View ArticleA novel toxin – and the first ever found – for a deadly pathogen, M. ...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Until now, no toxin had been found in 132 years of study for the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which infects 9 million people a year and...
View ArticleHITECH Act did not speed up electronic health record adoption as hoped, study...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) UAB - UAB News - HITECH Act did not speed up electronic health record adoption as hoped, study shows Despite financial incentives, the HITECH Act,...
View ArticleLittle students get big technology upgrade thanks to Crowdfunding at UAB (The...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) The UAB Child Development Center recently acquired nine new tablets thanks to money raised through a recent campaign. School studies are quickly moving...
View ArticleIntellectual sweat lands major NIH fund to study exercise (The University of...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers will seek molecular answers to how exercise delivers benefits and compete for a UAB center This summer, the NIH Common Fund announced a...
View ArticleWhen computers learn to understand doctors' notes, the world will be a better...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) UAB - UAB News - When computers learn to understand doctors' notes, the world will be a better place By training computers to pick out timing clues in...
View ArticleSouthern Research and UAB part of multisite study on effects of chemical...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers at UAB and Southern Research are teaming up with a consortium to study the effect on the brain of chemical agents known as...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing science: How Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is becoming a research...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) UAB - UAB News - Crowdsourcing science: How Amazon's Mechanical Turk is becoming a research tool A growing number of researchers, from computer...
View ArticleThree MSU doctoral students receive 2016 Kopriva Graduate Student Fellowships...
(Source: Montana State University) BOZEMAN -- Three doctoral students who work on research projects with biomedical applications have been awarded 2016 Kopriva Graduate Student Fellowships from the...
View ArticleMedia Q&A: Summer Gigs: Crowdsourcing – Part 1
Summer Job? Join the crowd Looking for a summer job? Have you thought about joining the crowd? Technology continues to accelerate ways for people to find employment opportunities. A current example of...
View ArticleLiterature review on the safety of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide...
(Source: TGA - Therapeutic Goods Administration) Summary This scientific review report is limited to the review of safety concerns surrounding zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO) nanoparticles...
View ArticleNew treatment principle for tuberculosis activates the body's own defence...
(Source: Karolinska Institutet) Wed, Jul 29, 2015 13:38 CET According to a new study from Karolinska Institutet which is being published in the journal Autophagy, the body's own defence system can be...
View ArticleA whole host of options (University of Cambridge)
(Source: University of Cambridge) Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan is, it's fair to say, a world authority on the biology of TB. She studies the disease - one which most people will know of as a disease...
View ArticleCellceutix Provides Insights to Its Four Clinical Trials for the Treatment of...
BEVERLY, MA--(Marketwired - August 07, 2015) - Cellceutix Corporation (OTC: CTIX) (the "Company"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies with oncology, dermatology,...
View ArticleResearchers Look for New Tools to Fight Ancient Foe
By Dr. Steven Porcelli Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease that has afflicted humans since the dawn of civilization and remains very much with us even now. In fact, more people will probably die...
View ArticleHow to Win the War Against Infection, Inflammation, Disease and Immunity...
(Source: Rutgers University) How to Win the War Against Infection, Inflammation, Disease and Immunity | Media Relations Your Source for University News New Jersey Medical School researchers describe...
View ArticleNew theorem helps reveal tuberculosis’ secret (Rice University)
(Source: Rice University) A new methodology developed by researchers at Rice and Rutgers universities could help scientists understand how and why a biochemical network doesn't always perform as...
View ArticleProposed Placing and Amendment to GHIF Bond (EpiStem Holdings plc)
(Source: EpiStem Holdings plc) THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN IT IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO AUSTRALIA,...
View ArticleAfter Positive P2B Results, Tiny, De-Risked Genocea Is Severely Undervalued
This article is composed of 17 sections. 1) Positive Event and Price Movement Since 2) Arguments from "Short Sellers"? 3) What Is HSV-2, How Does the Immune System Fight It, And What Does GEN-003 Do?...
View ArticleTuberculosis: The disease of antiquity
Jeff Schorey In the time it takes to read this article, half a dozen people will have died from tuberculosis (TB). It is a cruel and persistent killer, claiming 1.8 million lives each year, an...
View ArticleUT Southwestern researchers identify new mechanism of tuberculosis infection...
(Source: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) Jul 21, 2016 Dr. Michael Shiloh (front right) and lab members DALLAS - July 21 2016 - Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical...
View ArticleMemorandum on Addressing Societal and Scientific Challenges through Citizen...
(Source: Office of Science and Technology Policy) a1481bb7720d6a3fefcf77.pdf EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20502 September 30, 2015...
View ArticleThe manipulation of macrophages
In the movie Terminator 3: The Rise of Machines, the character Terminatrix (a humanoid robot) is able to manipulate cyborgs to work against humans for her own advantage. Now, scientists have discovered...
View ArticleA “release and kill” strategy may aid treatment of tuberculosis (The...
(Source: The University of Alabama at Birmingham) Tuberculosis kills 1.8 million people a year, and 10 million more are infected. Development of host-cell directed therapies that could restore cellular...
View ArticleRedHill Biopharma Provides Progress Update on RHB-104 Phase III Crohn’s...
An option for early stop for success for overwhelming efficacy has been introduced into the ongoing first Phase III study with RHB-104 for Crohn’s disease (the “MAP US” study) and analysis is expected...
View ArticleResearch in the Crowdsourcing Age, a Case Study (Pew Research Center)
(Source: Pew Research Center) How scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical Turk, a 'gig economy' platform, for tasks computers can't handle Digital age platforms are providing researchers...
View ArticlePulse Biosciences, Inc.: High-Voltage Hype Set To Short-Circuit
Editors' Note: References are noted by parentheticals - (1) - and end notes by superscript - 1. We are short shares of Pulse Biosciences (NASDAQ:PLSE), a ~$400 million medical device company with 13...
View ArticleStudy suggests targeting protein transport channel to thwart pathogen
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have found that a bacterium, Mycobacterium avium, or M. avium, could be halted by disrupting the distribution channels...
View ArticleCrowdsourced Data May Inaccurately Represent Some Population Groups
While crowdsourcing, a practice that enables study participants to submit data electronically, has grown in use for health and medical research, a study led by UC San Francisco comparing the online...
View ArticleThis Device Brings ‘Brave New World’ to Life
A new implant that wirelessly delivers drugs directly into the brain brings up challenging questions for neuroethicists. Shop ▾ Last week, a team of researchers developed a new implant that has the...
View ArticleProtein transport channel offers new target for thwarting pathogen
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A bacterium that attacks people suffering from chronic lung disease and compromised immune systems could be halted by disrupting the distribution channels the organism uses to access...
View ArticleWinship authored publications for February 2016 (The Winship Cancer Institute...
(Source: The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University) Various first authors and senior authors from Winship Cancer Institute have published 76 studies in major medical and scientific journals in...
View ArticleThe Natural Biotic Environment of Caenorhabditis elegans [Evolution and Ecology]
Abstract Organisms evolve in response to their natural environment. Consideration of natural ecological parameters are thus of key importance for our understanding of an organism’s biology. Curiously,...
View ArticleStudy finds innate immunity connection to rare, fatal childhood disease, and...
(Source: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) Aug 02, 2016 DALLAS - Aug. 2, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found an important innate immunity role for...
View ArticleDiscovery of a new mechanism for bacterial division
26.06.17- EPFL scientists show how some pathogenic bacteria - such as the mycobacteria that cause tuberculosis - use a previously unknown mechanism to coordinate their division. The discovery could...
View ArticleMinistry of Health and Family Welfare Notable Achievements and Initiatives-...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) 1. Mission Indradhanush The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched 'Mission Indradhanush', depicting seven colours...
View ArticleWinship authored publications for January 2017 (The Winship Cancer Institute...
(Source: The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University) Various first authors and senior authors from Winship Cancer Institute have published 127 studies in major medical and scientific journals in...
View ArticleMicroRNAs That Contribute to Coordinating the Immune Response in Drosophila...
Abstract Small noncoding RNAs called microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression related to host defenses. Here, we have used Drosophila melanogaster to...
View ArticleMycobacterium tuberculosis is protected from NADPH oxidase and LC3-associated...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis’ success as a pathogen comes from its ability to evade degradation by macrophages. Normally macrophages clear microorganisms that activate pathogen-recognition receptors...
View ArticleWinship authored publications for August 2017
Various first authors and senior authors from Winship Cancer Institute have published 110 studies in major medical and scientific journals in the past month. Here is a complete list of published...
View ArticleSpero Therapeutics: An Exciting Anti-Microbial IPO
Investment Thesis Spero Therapeutics (Pending:SPRO) has just begun trading as a public company following its IPO on November 2, 2017. It has offered 5.5 million shares at a price range of $14-16, with...
View ArticleNIH announces awards for BRAIN Initiative neuroethics research
News Release Monday, October 30, 2017 Grants aim to address neuroethical issues associated with human brain research. As scientists develop powerful neurotechnologies to monitor and regulate brain...
View ArticleX-Biotix Licenses Harvard Technology, Establishes Research Collaboration To...
WALTHAM, Mass., May 30, 2017 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- X-Biotix Therapeutics, Inc. (X-Biotix), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of novel small molecule antibiotic scaffolds...
View ArticleWe need a minimum wage for microworkers
“A man is less responsible for rape if he is affected by drugs or alcohol.” I quickly clicked my mouse over to the right button, “Strongly Disagree.” My eyes burned. I had answered this question three...
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